My name is Magnus Svantegård (LinkedIn), live in Sweden, and is the Product Manager for Datscha and Partner in Stronghold Invest. I believe in smart use of Internet in the Real Estate industry.
In preparation for their global event in January (New York) the Inman organisation is going on a European research tour. They will be visiting;
Interested in meeting them?
Drop a line to Joel Burslem at Inman, joel@inman.com
Unfortunately, they will not be visiting Sweden.
It's official, I'm now part of the Inman 'International Advisory Group'.
Makes me proud just to be on the same list like the people below.
The Inman events
I went to my first Inman event this summer (remember, I'm located in Sweden!) and it was brilliant (coverage). If you're interested in the field of IT meeting residential real estate this is the place to be.
Events
I'm happy to help organisations like Inman to further develop their events. Because I strongly believe each country (and then a few global ones) needs an event like those. Both where end-users can meet suppliers, but also where believers could meet up and share the energy.
It's in Private Beta and is for sure the most wanted service to sign up for in Sweden.
I've previously got a demo of the service and got directly hooked.
It's like 'iTunes on crack!'. (This may seams like a post out of topic but for me is this a great example of the use of Internet.)
The service
Spotify is a music service that on demand steams the songs to your computer. You do need to download a software in order to use it. However, you are able to log on to your own Spotify account on any computer with the software downloaded.
Read about the founders, a video, the office, and description (in Swedish) another one (also in Swedish).
The beauty
The easiest way to explain the beauty is to imagine an iTunes account where you save your songs in 'the cloud' and you can easily play them from any computer (after the small download).
The cost
When going live it is said rumoured to be in two versions;
The ultimate service for me would be to pay for this service and having the free distributed to the musicians based on the songs I play.
The looks
The service is brilliant in it's simplicity. You pretty much search, play and create play lists (which could be shared). All is extremely straight forward and amazing fast.
One more thing
Be aware if you have the possibility to try it.
It's seriously addictive...
Andrew Waller at Remit Consulting sent me a great FT article which included this brilliant quote;
"Like many Google initiatives, Chrome is as much a philosophy as a product. And the philosophy is: never mind the computer, the action is on the Internet. That is getting truer by the day."
Not only that, it's a way of life...
Do you think Wordpress is the 'the stuff' when it comes to blogging? It's time for you to get 'Squarespaced'!
I've been using this SaaS blogging platform since 2006 and has been more than happy. Tonight I (finally) sat down and tried out all the new version5 functionality. (As you may notice from the redesign of my blog.)
And have they improved!
Below is how the screen looks like when changing design template, number of columns and navigation. Just click and draw. A picture tells you more... you have to see this video.
You want more details?
This video shows the Squarespace team showing of by rebuilding the 37signals blog in 18 minutes(?).
It has been some improvement since I, in 1996, wrote my first site using notepad...
Magnus (The Believer)